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by compiler-guy 3mo ago
"putting your art, writing, expression out to be judged by others is an act of bravery as much as talent, and a lot of people lack braver-y. Sorry to say it but if you need your work to be polished and beyond reproach, that's a de
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Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring(techcrunch.com)
380 points by compiler-guy 3mo ago|209 comments
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by compiler-guy 3mo ago
In the early days of commercial optical-character-recognition software, vendors would brag about 99% accuracy. But a single-spaced-typewritten page has about 500 words, so you were looking at five typos every single page. It was good at the
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by compiler-guy 3mo ago
I support a bevy of older people with older computers, senior-citizen types. Upgrades are expensive. Monetarily, but also in retraining. These folks don't want the latest UI, they want what is familiar, and retraining is super annoying
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Parachute use to prevent death: a review of Randomized Controlled Trials(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by compiler-guy 3mo ago|1 comments
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by compiler-guy 3mo ago
One classic paper for on this topic: _Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials_ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC30080
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by compiler-guy 3mo ago
Sparc and Xtensa also have register windows, although each has a slightly different implementation. They were all the rage for a while, because they make procedure calls fast but turn out to have subtle issues in highly-multithreaded scenar
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by compiler-guy 3mo ago
Thousands, maybe tens-of-thousands, leave tech companies everyday and never post anything. You just don’t hear about them.
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by compiler-guy 3mo ago
https://tessil.github.io/2016/08/29/benchmark-hopscotch-map.... Has some older benchmarks, including those two.
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
Pretty sure greed existed long before capitalism was a twinkle in any economist's eye. The East India Company was rapacious and evil and full of greed. But it was mercantilist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercant
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
"A linen shirt … is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
It takes about 3-4 years to build a fab and ten-billion dollars. https://download.intel.com/newsroom/2022/manufacturing/fab-f... And even if someone were able to magically build one in half the time, that wou
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
This really isn't true. I'm nothing special and have survived in the FAANG world for going on two decades. Excepting the very new in their careers, nearly everyone on my team has managed good length careers at the various FANNGS,
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
Chesterton's fence has two parts: 1. I want to remove a rule 2. Understand why that rule is in place before proceeding This article deals with the second part, but not the first. So it is only about about half of Chesterton's fenc
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
Whatever else music theory is, "immature" isn't one of them. Western music theory has evolved over literally thousands of years. You can put a very rough start of it to Pythagoras, around 550BCe ish, which gives us 2,500 year
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
Even before the internet, employees were making these kinds of criticisms at lunch, at the water cooler and during their car pools. If the company forbids it on visible internal channels, it will just pop up on external, private channels. W
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
If one is writing trailers and custom formatters, then probably the information that the formatter uses should be even more structured that sticking it in the subject line.
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
COMPANY-1234 in the title doesn't tell the reader all that much about the the feature or motivation. It does tell the client, but I'm not seeing why that is better than having it in the description as a tag, or some other nice way
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
SoA can be a big win. But so can plain AoS, just depends on the access pattern. Profiling important workloads matters. Without that everything else is guesswork.
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
Right. Places without unlimited PTO get neither the upsides nor the downsides of unlimited PTO.
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
Some people do like it, and I'm glad it's working out for them--I really am. But adding all that manager and corporate discretion sets one up for abuse when things go wrong at either the manager or corporate level. For some, I sup
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
Pretty much every article on a naive Google search lists "reduced financial liability" as one of the corporate benefits. Even the ones that talk about more complicated financial scenarios deal with "unexpectedly short-staffed
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
"Contracted minimum with more at manager's discretion" isn't what people usually mean when they talk about unlimited pto.
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
It does not. Nothing.
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
The shift from the tem "Unlimited PTO" to "Discretionary PTO" has happened because early proponents realized it wasn't really unlimited, and they didn't want workers to think that way. But the "unlimited&q
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
"Unlimited PTO" is a fiction created by accountants that sounds good on paper. When you need or want time off, you work it out with your manager. No debate about how many days you have left this year, or how many you have accumula
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
lobste.rs is similar to hn, just around the corner, and does something like this.
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by compiler-guy 4mo ago
Insurance doesn't exactly cancel that. Maybe in a theoretical world, perhaps. For example, I have a decently-sized life-insurance policy. If buying insurance "exactly covered that", I would be indifferent to whether I lived o
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by compiler-guy 5mo ago
Which is why I was comparing Porsche's 2025 sales data with its own prior years' sales data and not with Ferrari's sales data. Year over year is an imperfect but reasonable-directional proxy for brand staying power, especiall
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by compiler-guy 5mo ago
It’s not local storage, but a file system that makes it look like local storage. Even on machines with chrome Remote Desktop it is still stored remotely. So remote to the remote.

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